An old man's barroom yarn about a missing wagon load of gold whets the greedy appetites of his listeners. He is found, tortured for his knowledge and close to dead the next day by David Travis. Travis joins the hunt for treasure in the mountains of East Texas, but he does it for the sake of justice, lending his aid to the dead man's pretty daughter.
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An old man's barroom yarn about a missing wagon load of gold whets the greedy appetites of his listeners. He is found, tortured for his knowledge and close to dead the next day by David Travis. Travis joins the hunt for treasure in the mountains of East Texas, but he does it for the sake of justice, lending his aid to the dead man's pretty daughter.
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Sickened by war and embittered by his experience at Gettysburg, David Travis heads west to escape the pain of war—and his past.In a bar in the hills north of El Paso, he hears an old prospector spin a crazy tale about a wagon train loaded with Spanish gold that vanished in the West Texas hills in the early part of the seventeenth century.The next day, Travis finds the old man near death—it seems that certain others believed the prospector’s tale and forced him to tell all he knew. Travis decides to team up with the dead man’s daughter and head into the mountains to find if the old man’s claims of a lost treasure are indeed true. They are not alone in their mountain quest, and their hidden adversaries have already proven that they are willing to kill for treasure.
About the Author
Kevin D. Randle has written more than 112 books about everything from action/adventure to UFOs and westerns. He served as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam and as an intelligence officer in Iraq. He retired from the military in 2009. He has written freelance for more than three decades and lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Sickened by war and embittered by his experience at Gettysburg, David Travis heads west to escape the pain of war--and his past.In a bar in the hills north of El Paso, he hears an old prospector spin a crazy tale about a wagon train loaded with Spanish gold that vanished in the West Texas hills in the early part of the seventeenth century.The next day, Travis finds the old man near death--it seems that certain others believed the prospector's tale and forced him to tell all he knew. Travis decides to team up with the dead man's daughter and head into the mountains to find if the old man's claims of a lost treasure are indeed true. They are not alone in their mountain quest, and their hidden adversaries have already proven that they are willing to kill for treasure.
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